Indigenous Enlightenment : Printing and Education in Evangelical Colonialism, 1790-1850 / Stuart McKee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McKee, Stuart, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literacy--Social aspects.

Literacy.

Native language and education.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (585 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

University of Nebraska Press 2023

Lincoln, Nebraska : The University of Nebraska Press, [2023]

Summary:

In Indigenous Enlightenment Stuart D. McKee examines the methodologies, tools, and processes that British and American educators developed to inculcate Indigenous cultures of reading and learning between 1790 and 1850.

Contents:

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Accession to Western Civility

Part 1. A Cry for Books and Teachers

2. The Foreign Mission School

3. The Central School of Imerina

4. Charity Schools and Common Schools

5. Pathshalas

Part 2. Learning the Indigenous Languages

6. Ako

7. Haapii

Part 3. An Uneasy Conflation of Cultures

8. Learning to Print

9. Printing to Learn

Part 4. A Civilization Gone Stagnant

10. Under Cover

11. Under Contract

Part 5. "In a Savage Country"

12. Making News

13. Making Do

Afterword

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: McKee, Stuart Indigenous Enlightenment

ISBN:

9781496237965

149623796X

9781496237972

1496237978

OCLC:

1407026558